which city for GTA 5?

Milton Keynes

coventry

xpost.

coventry maybe but wd a milton keynes GTA really be any cop? GTA needs a sufficiently large mix of ethnicities and immigrant factions to work successfully dunnit? which probably discounts a heap of cities on my list, tho it would be nice to see them stray from that formula (I might be getting GTA wrong here btw, I'm not the biggest fanboy, feel free to correct me)

delhi wd be ace but I don't think the tech could handle the density of ppl req'd to be faithful

sinking feeling it'll be london

there aren't any iconic american cities left. chicago?

maybe it will be a historical title

they've done san francisco haven't they (I suck at GTA); ignore tht one

vancouver

new york

sydney

maybe here would be best http://desktopgaming.com/desktops/thumbnails/166.jpg

WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT
niko bellic
bowser

scotland would be cool, but I don't think marketing would let them do that.

wd be a PR disaster on the scale of the resi5 trailer: a GTA w/only very pale white people in it

lagos would be insane

mumbai too close to the bone?

rio would be cool

Venice

pyongyang o_O

baltimore :D

yess^

baltimore+dc ????

(obama could be in it)

moscowwww

mumbai would be awesome

you should PLAY obama in it

lol the character could be called barry opana or somesuch

El Dorado
Atlantis
R'lyeh

Neo-Tokyo
Coruscant
Zion (lol)

lol the character could be called barry opana or somesuch

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it could revolve around the first 100 days... all the people he has to take out and stuff

yah there could be a governing aspect where u have to negotiate w/the gop and stuff and a crime spree aspect where u kill everyone - but the thing is no one can know yr the president so u wear a comedy mustache when committing crimes - of course the two worlds meet...

Back to Vice City, but this time I want rural Florida, the keys, and Cuba or something similar.

I don't particularly want it but maybe a Vegas one will be made.

i think it'll stay in the US, but somewhere more pulpy and vivid than lib city - so yeah, vice city maybe...

how about NOLA

NOLA would be amazing.

itd be cool to do a completely accurate recreation of a geographically small city

athens, ga

you play a member of an elephant 6 band

Machu Picchu

pattern dictates it should be a glorious revamp of vice city-

ps1 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
ps2 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
psp gta : liberty stories, vice stories
ps3 gta : liberty city, ??

^^^haha cozwn, i'd play that game!

(also do have the sinking feeling they will just go back to Vice City, but I'd much rather see another city. Even in another country besides the US, but it seems you need that vast multicultural criminal tension for it to work, so where else?)

gaza
darfur
kabul

beirut

wd play GTA: bogota

^^wd be lagos-level sick I think

I'd love to play an Al Capone starred GTA

it should prob just be the entire world - is everyone ready 4 dat

sounds like a great plot for a movie maybe from the directors of crank?

Hey, guys! Love this conversation.

I voted for Tokyo. With the lights and tall skyscrapers and dense population, you could have some very engaging gameplay. If the artists at Rockstar really branch out like they did in GTA: San Andreas, you could include Mt. Fuji, rural Shinto areas of gameplay, and even the military base at Okinawa. Plus, Japan in itself geographically most resembles a GTA "state". Just imagine plots involving North Korean kidnappers and side missions in pachinko parlours!

Yanks would have to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, but who knows? Maybe even Godzilla or the Enola Gay could make an appearance in the end!

I wonder what they would call it though. GTA: Miyogi?

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/video/stills/n/niko_romin.flv.jpg

From this list I'd definitely go with Tokyo

gta: robocop - u have to evade robocop (who is unkillable) whenever u get a star

i have a massive boner at the idea of gta: tokyo

i think rio would be dope

gta blame it on rio

i've never played this game but the latino element seems essential, so i voted for rio

plus rio is already actually like gta

however, it would be super badass to flip the script and pull a "snake eater" where you're in the jungles of colombia and have to steal jeeps and swamp boats

"however, it would be super badass to flip the script and pull a "snake eater" where you're in the jungles of colombia and have to steal jeeps and swamp boats" <-- idk that just sounds like far cry to me

I'd like to see them go back to the bigger three city idea, but yeah, time for some new cities. San Andreas style, but London / Paris / Berlin perhaps.

yeah I voted for Paris b/c I actually know it well, unlike NYC and Miami (never played SA). But from this thread I think a South American city would be badass. But pretty unlikely. I figure it'll be Vice City 2.

Yanks would have to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, but who knows?

cmon nobody actually tries to drive properly in these games, do they?

Tokyo!

write in for jo'burg

from this list istanbul/lagos/rio/tokyo wd all rule

pyongyang o_O

eyo cozwn you never played mercenaries??

'what decade' is a more pressing question to me personally

guangdong

tulsa

what decade what city, goole?

70s new york wd be neat but maybe a bit trad by now

sf already done (although livberty city was too, i guess) glasgow???? come on. That other gta like game has already covered london. my bet: chicago

the thing about Chicago is that for people outside America there isn't really a definable image of Chicago. E.g. I could tell you literally nothing about Chicago whereas I could tell you all the boroughs of New York and their geographical placement as well as a number of landmarks without having ever been there.

the game is so tied to american gansta movie shit i dont think theyll ever take it abroad - if it took place in lagos or rio or wherever the culture just wouldnt be there

xpost. ike in GTA 4 going over whatever they called the Queensboro bridge in to Dukes and saying to myself, "hey, there's the Queensbridge Houses". Same thing wouldn't happen in a Chicago based game.

And yeah, it is tied to American gangsta movie shit, plus I think wherever it is would at least have to be anglophone, having it in Rio with all these dudes doing crap accents would be rough.

i miss the period detail of earlier GTAs - would love to see 70s/60s game, tho i guess that might turn off legion of teen GTAers...

gta: five points

i guess tho itd be weird to have it take place before autos

glasgow wd be tight but they'd have to artificially up the immigrant no.s

gta: deadwood

a whole bunch of 20s-50s gangsta games have been huge disappointments so maybe a GTA could do it right. 20s Chicago might work. "might feature rub-a-dub and flappers" etc

xp ok now that one i like

I'd be surprised if they didn't do London at some point

Oh yeah, and even people in the US don't know anything about Chicago... unless you're from the Midwest.

london was already subject of one of the pre-3d grand theft autos

london is a possibility but dudes are OTM that they will never / should never do it in a non-english country, wouldn't be the same.

Wouldn't be the same as having a game set in America, in which every single character speaks using UK English idiosyncrasies

I think the colonies have long since developed their own charactersitic idiosyncrasies.

There was this game that existed around the same time as the pre-3D GTAs called Driver.

The first one was set in Miami/SF/LA/NYC but the second was set in Chicago, Havana, Las Vegas and Rio.

I played the hell out of these 2 games. Good times.

The LA part of San Andreas was amazing, I think they should do LA again revamped.

Tokyo would be super-hott -- yakuza, geishas, neon motocycles, mechas. Shinjuku would be total eyeporn overload.

Also: Putin-era Moscow!!

Imagine if they did a Hong Kong or Japan gangster movie homage game? (Though this may be happening in part through the Chinatown Wars game, which I am looking forward to more than I thought I would) A Rockstar-realized Tokyo or HK would be incredible, though I admit having it fully acted and written in English might be weird. I like the Prohibition-era idea, too.

San Andreas * GTA IV grimness - happy fun-time wacko missions would be depressing, though.

GUN was an attempt at a GTA:Deadwood style game but i dont think anybody ever played it. also it was wasn't good.

theres no way theyll take this shit out of USA. DREAM ON

GTA Delaware

GUN was an attempt at a GTA:Deadwood style game but i dont think anybody ever played it. also it was wasn't good.

It was ALMOST good though. There wasn't anything to do in the world, and it felt very linear. You take that template and actually make a real cowboy game with open plains and buried treasure and indian attacks and I would play the shit out of it.

Balto/DC and NOLA are both good ideas.

yeah, I think baltimore/DC could be really good while obv totally satisfying the inner wirestan

^^^they already have a lot of blueprint plots they could pilfer

they could just use the fallout 3 maps

dubai
mogadishu
mumbai
detroit
montreal

It should of course be set in the 2015 Hill Valley from Back to the Future II.

When ideas like a time-travelling GTA seem like a good idea to me, I know I should be working for the Sonic Team.

GTA: Tokyo would be hella stupid, I fear. Maybe if they teamed up with a Japanese developer it could work.

Shit, make it the whole USA, set it in Prohibition and run moonshine from mexico in Texas and California, from appalachian stills to the midwest, from canada into NY, Chicago and Seattle, from Cuba into Florida (GTBoat?)

Tommy guns! Fedoras! Model Ts! HORSES!

All y'all crying out for a Proper Gangsters GTA know that there's a sequel on the way to Mafia (which is a apparently both quite good and not confused with Godfather the video game by anyone except me)?

why would anyone set a game in montreal

Manchester 1990 would be ace. Hacienda, Afflecks Palace, big fuckoff flares, triad. A feature length prequel to the Maccer (Shaun Ryder) story from San Andrea.

Andreas even.

Also would need trippy Jeff Noon side-stories.

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voted delhi, I think

unless someone else did

GTA: maryhill

saw a dude hook a woman wielding a meat cleaver out my window earlier this week

WHAT?

xp. I love Glasgow.

Getting off the subway at St George's Cross is as near to Maryhill as I get.

60s London would be awesome, if only for the soundtrack. I want to do some drive-bys to merseybeat. They could get Michael Caine to do the voice-overs!

dude hooked her right on the jaw as she was walking straight towards him shouting "you're going to get life!" with her meat cleaver raised above her head

o_O

seriously though, fingers crossed for some HD neontastic vice city visuals.

Dubai is the best idea here by miles I think.

sweeeeeeeeet
http://www.rockstarbase.com/2011/01/09/2011-the-year-gta-vs-location-is-revealed/

Would totally get excited for this. Still my favourite GTA game.

was playing VC the other day, loved the arcade quality of it - like picking up police bribes.

i hope they give better rewards in the next game. vc 100% completion gives you infinite ammo, double vehicles health. double health for vigilante missions, double armour for vigilante. GTAIV gave you NOTHING for doing anything!

Yeah. I liked the Vice City thing of giving you small rewards for every 10 or so hidden packages too, rather than making you find all 100 to get anything, so you could just find them casually and be happy not getting every single one. Free guns and armour without any walkthrough-related guilt.

that rockstarbase article implies that GTA will start following a cycle of the three major locations for every platform iteration.

I wouldn't mind a return to Vice City but would be more interested in a location in Asia.

should be the whole world imo

i don't play these games but the fact that that poster is for "vesuvius citrate" immediately suggested to me that it would Naples (home of the Camorra) or some version thereof.

GTA Budapest

GTA Blood Diamonds

GTA ILX

Niko Raggett

What an odd, pretty much content-less post. It's like the guy wanted so desperately to find out the next city that he posts a bit of utter speculation about very, very little in hopes the knowledge will appear.

I bet my left baw the next yin is in vice city.

GUN was an attempt at a GTA:Deadwood style game but i dont think anybody ever played it. also it was wasn't good.

It was ALMOST good though. There wasn't anything to do in the world, and it felt very linear. You take that template and actually make a real cowboy game with open plains and buried treasure and indian attacks and I would play the shit out of it.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, January 23, 2009 12:32 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ Proven to be so very OTM.

Especially the part about me specifically. I played RDR to death.

Trailer for 4 is being released November 2, 2011
http://www.rockstargames.com/

Trailer for 5, I mean.
http://www.rockstargames.com/

psyched

no doubt!

wonder if that dollar-y font means anything

internet says evidence points to this being set in Hollywood/LA.

fuck, i dream of tokyo

dollar-y font made me think of DC, how great wd a b-more/dc conurbation situation be?

these days having a game where u can wreck choppers and toss grenades around the capitol/WH/pentagon is probably enough to get you thrown in prison irl

oh shit better get rid of my copy of fallout 3

oh. my. fucking. god

and oddly enough only yesterday was thinking about this, after i'd revisited gta4 on sunday night for a hangover session.

it seems crazy that they wouldn't take this opportunity to finally set a gta in the cleveland-columbus-pittsburgh triangle

dayton dlc

might go back and finally beat GTA IV in celebration (assuming I finish Arkham City + Skyrim with some time to spare) (unlikely)

i tried to find my last 6 pigeons on sunday, ended up loading up a map to cheat. still could only find about 3 of them before i got bored.

i need to 100%, without cheating, the Stories games on ps2 before anything really. those are two great games.

i loaded up LC Stories, on ps2, and realised i still had the vigilante mission to do. Man am I out of practice, so fucking hard. Actually thought I was going to cry real tears it was that frustrating. But on the other hand, nice to finally attempt something challenging.

1 hour 32 mins to go

boo. hiss.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/324653/featuresis-gta-v-the-answer-to-the-pre-owned-problem/

so it's LA, not sure if it's san andreas but there was a glimpse of oil pumps in the desert

Looks pretty smooth.

you can see a couple things that say "los santos."

It hangs 13 seconds from the end for me though. Any release info there?

Vinewood. There's also a shot of the mountains.

and planes!

thank god

that was boring, but gta4's trailer was amazing and look how that pile turned out. sucks that you're playing another white guy though

looks like there'll be some badlands

no release date in the trailer

No release date, but there's shot of the VINEWOOD sign at the end.

I've read spoilers saying the main dude is Hispanic.

no release date mentioned

cool looking jeep at around 55 secs

Hoods I recognized:

Venice
Santa Monica
Long Beach
San Pedro
Silver Lake
Echo Park
Hollywood
Beverly Hills

San Pedro? Hope you can steal an econoline van.

20 seconds in: really hope there's a hiking submission/activity.

looks good to me, still psyched

if your character has kids tho, that's p interesting!

The guy at 0:59 looks like a wasted Niko Belic.

dog at the start? perhaps just for trailer

san andreas on the licence plates, yeah so it's probably a cut down version - be surprised if they bothered with vegas at all in this one. I'm guessing just Los santos with the surrounding countryside. which i'm happy about, love togging it around the hills.

good thing they heeded everyones advice and made the protagonist another Good Guy Trying to Do the Right Thing i hope they give you a cousin and a girlfriend again

people are speculating protagonist is an older tommy vercetti? might make sense w/ the "leaving the life behind" talk. he'd be like 60 in this though if it's set in present day

xp npc characters who aren't sociopathic thugs, oh the humanity

gameplay preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

xp npc characters who aren't sociopathic thugs, oh the humanity

― ceci n'est pas un nom d'affichage (ledge), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:25 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol you dont understand at all what im getting at

its a gameplay issue

also if they were specifially trying to fool everyone right at the start into thinking it was VC, they got me.

it's ok i'm fully prepared for this to have the loathsome repetitive grinding gameplay they've had in every other installment so far, and still get a massive kick out of just tooling round the city.

^^gta

god i hope you have to take care of your kids, and hopefully even answer phone calls from them

lol

hopefully you can bowl with them. as literally as possible.

make enough money to pay back child support missions imo

PTA minigame

you have to drive everywhere in an suv at 30mph with your kids in the back

they'll interrupt your hot coffee

they're the RESULT of your hot coffee

gross bro

it's true, didnt your parents ever tell you about the birds and the bees

the cream and the sugar

if your character has kids tho, that's p interesting!

I don't think he does. Having kids just appears to be a part of his dream/plan of settling down.

Hope you get to fly the crop duster. Anyway, the big, shiny version of the trailer

http://youtu.be/A8rz8Yxle10

GTA game looks like a GTA game, and I'm okay with that. Slightly disappointed that they didn't take the franchise out of the US though. I'd have loved a European setting, + giving it a Bourne Identity flavour. But.

gimme a break, a gta set outside the US would suck ass, even doing london again would be lame

looks very same-y, I am disappoint. was hoping for gta:midwest. drive 45 minutes to walmart, mission complete.

i'd love to seem them do a non-gridded city but that's about it

http://images.wikia.com/lotr/images/e/e4/Minas_Tirith.jpg

Okay more:

Culver City
Signal Hill
Malibu
Downtown LA (like between Skid Row/Little Tokyo)

they should do a gta-style open world game of thrones game, if they decide to base one on the property

truth be told, i really want a post-apocalyptic gta. fallout + carmageddon + saints row 2.

fallout 3 basically WAS that, but a bit more rpg-y

repegenarian, i guess is the word

I would only be interested in GTA if it got mapped onto a franchise/movie like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

this trailer does look sweet. i wonder how much of it is actual gameplay.

but s1ocki i want cars and i want to run people over with them/shoot missiles out of them. also with tight maps full of busted up shit and jumps and stuff. basically what borderlands tried to do but the car parts sucked

xpost my heart says not one bit of that is gameplay

GTA4 was so boring, but in part b/c I don't care about NYC as a place to spend time, unless it were like Saints Row 2 & I can shoot bazookas to knock down trains or (unlike Saints Row 2) otherwise rearrange the environment. Like, I want to level buildings & destroy highways etc. Alternately I want it to be a place I like, but I'm fairly picky that way & LA certainly doesn't interest me. So alas.

also gang faction missions would be a lot more fun if like your boss was wearing shoulderpads and telling you to bring him the head of grog the unmerciful

plus in the nuclear wastes your cell phone wouldnt work and so your cousin couldnt call you to try and get you to play pool with him.

I still have this idea of combining the different Vice Cities and Liberty Cities into a time-travel game -- where you're walking through a Disney Times Square, enter the subway, and come out in Taxi Driver 70s. And in BTTF style, you could have the mayor in the 70s look like the homeless pedestrian in 2010, etc.

i've said this on like every rockstar thread but gta4 didn't have enough driving in it!

they were saving all that awesome driving fun for l.a. noire obv

fallout with cars would be... interesting. i did LOVE carmaggeds 2

i actually went back and tried to reopen my gta iv save and it was so unfun in the first 10 minutes that i just popped in saints row 2 and shot bazookas at gas stations for a while

kinda surprised there hasn't been a mad max property out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_%28video_game%29

gta iv was SUCH a letdown. still havent forgiven them for giving you three clothing stores, and making two of them identical. WHY DID YOU DO THAT

fallout with cars would be fallout 2

I was bummed about GTA4 mostly because The Warriors' NYC was so much more real.

gta iv got too up its own ass with the story and forgot to tell it via interesting and varied mission design. they kinda woke up and did it on the dlc's tho

saints row III > GTAV calling it

was that The Warriors game any good?

(trailer is p.cool tho no doubt)

the gta dlc's give me hope it'll be good. gay tony was great.

I liked the Warriors, though I never played it. It was dark, had neat sidegames, got to play as different characters, wasn't all "there are 12 targets in this warehouse before you reach the guy who jumps through a window and gets away or dies." There was one fight that pretty much felt like what it would be like to crawl around in a dark vacant lot, looking for a brick to throw at some unknown perpetrator.

Plus you could hang out in the Warriors clubhouse, work out on the punching bag and chill with some Joe Walsh tunes.

I played it through to the end.

godammit, I LIKE THE WARRIORS THOUGH I NEVER PLAYED IT THROUGH TO THE NED.

okay, just leaving that last one stand on its own. you get the gist.

lol

how could you like it if you never played it?

Ned told me.

ok i will be stoked for gta v now only if ned is the final boss battle

he is a mini-boss along w/maxandbuffsmom

connor smedley is the final boss

awooooooooooooo

he was interested in talk and chat, perfect for gta

end mission is you must toss maltovs into k.u.c.i.

I'm bored of LA as a setting for open world video games but I like that they widened the scope a bit, a la San Andreas. You get the beach and the hills and the orange groves and the barrio and etc.

gta iv got too up its own ass with the story and forgot to tell it via interesting and varied mission design. they kinda woke up and did it on the dlc's tho

otm, Gay Tony was actually gtaiv for me. in fact my 360 also seems to think that too.

seriously half of gtaIV was drive here, get out, listen to someone talk, shoot six guys, escape wanted level, collect $600.

The thing that needs the most work is just the core shooting mechanics. Red Dead was a huge improvement, and even that game is a little wonky compared to something great. And there's no reason why GTA couldn't have a good brawling system like Arkham City's.

i saw someone describe the arkham city fighting like having an actual fighting game in the middle of an open world game and that's pretty otm. it's an easy to say a game doesn't have as good combat as AC bc afaic pretty much no games do.

Yeah but they could at least have fighting as good as Arkham Asylum. Or The Warriors even!

nah i don't care for melee combat in gta5, just give me vehicles and stuff to fuck about with.

I want both!

So is it noy ABQ/Phoenix/Ciudad Juarez because that was totally my choice?

I want Grand Theft Auto. If I want something that isn't Grand Theft Auto then maybe I'll play something that isn't Grand Theft Auto, instead of playing Grand Theft Auto wishing it wasn't like Grand Theft Auto.

I remember when one would guide a pink bubble into a larger blue bubble and hope for the splat not to come

if it was set in like bruges it wouldnt BE grand theft auto do u c

I remember when one would guide a pink bubble into a larger blue bubble and hope for the splat not to come

― Hollis Frampton Comes Alive! (admrl), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:31 PM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark

u doing pre-natal hypnotic memory research or

or i am just hi

hi

give a HI five

o hi c

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Hebrew_Chai_Symbol_trans.svg/687px-Hebrew_Chai_Symbol_trans.svg.png

how abotu gta: east jerusalem

gtfo

gta: the moon

gtfo 5

gfto: the maroon 5

In GTA 5, motorbike steals YOU

GTD 5

smells like poutine spirit

bout to drop the trailer for GTA SB

orly

Read a bit speculating that this game has five (V) protagonists who all participate in a bank heist.

but s1ocki i want cars and i want to run people over with them/shoot missiles out of them. also with tight maps full of busted up shit and jumps and stuff. basically what borderlands tried to do but the car parts sucked

xpost my heart says not one bit of that is gameplay

― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 3:13 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

sounds like u want RAGE

i just hope this isnt as poorly optimized for the PC as gta4 was

i do want rage but except for the fact that people tell me that rage sucks balls

really? i've heard a lot of good things. can't be worse than snore-derlands anyway, plus john goodman's in it. but im not gonna buy it until its on sale

yeah as usual i am rooting for the internet to declare it a failure so i can snap it up for no dollars

so yeah i hear that RAGE for the xbox 360 is the worst game ever kinect implementation terrible framerate sexist not sexist enough your friends will laugh at you stiff learning curve not for hardcore gamers uncanny valley RROD

lol

GTA is like Fallout; both need to be set in the US b/c their re-purposing of very select bits of American current/historical culture is central to the core design and satire of the games.

^^^ this

hoping i manage to finish gta:sa before gtav is released, i only made it to vegas last week.

(flying school was very hard)

fallout with cars would be... interesting. i did LOVE carmaggeds 2

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:18 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Funny that you bring that up. With my revisit to NV recently I was pondering how perfect the Fallout games would be if they'd let me drive vehicles. I love those chunky 50's sci fi looking things, instead I always just blow them up for the laffs

have you played Fallout 2 mate?

disappointed that I may never see a playstation4/xbox 720 in my lifetime

According to reports in late October 2011, the next generation Xbox console will launch at E3 in 2013.

RIP dayo ;_;

;_;

for some reason I thought the PS3 was older than 5 years. I guess that's normal for a console lifecycle

sony and miKKKro$haft would probably love for this generation to continue on forever, since they've lost so much money on these current consoles

developers too, how much is it going to cost to develop for a next gen system? nobodys gonna take any risks on a new IP, enjoy yr Halo 9.

and consumers aren't gonna be that bothered, yeh you get the bleeding edge pixel counters wanting a new system but for a lot of people i bet we're getting close to that "this is good enough" that DVD reached for movies.

xp I'm 10 hours into Rage and it's fun. The story is HORRIBLE though and the NPCs never stfu.

developers too, how much is it going to cost to develop for a next gen system? nobodys gonna take any risks on a new IP, enjoy yr Halo 9.

i wouldn't get too dystopian. afaict moore's law still works

sony and miKKKro$haft would probably love for this generation to continue on forever, since they've lost so much money on these current consoles

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:08 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

disappointed you didn't alter sony's name here

gaystation

i definitely thought about it, couldnt decide on anything good. sony's tough to modify

Sunni's Shariastation

yeah the only thing i came up with was Spwny which sucks

phoney gaystation

poostation

Piss3

hory shit

(flying school was very hard)

another aspect i miss, that didn't appear in gtaiv, i know some people hated this shit (and personally pizza deliveries mission was waaaay too long and boring) but it would be nice if they had been included in IV at least changed to remain interesting. Vigilante was good though, but there was no reward for completing it, wtf?

in fact, there was no reward for finding all the hidden pigeons, and no reward for 100% completion either. How about some infinite ammo you sucks?

and the stadium missions too, fucking loved that kiststart type mission from VC and SA. All the great races they had in VC, and hidden checkpoint races. non existent in IV.

and Rampages (although they only appeared in SA for two players, technically still existed) wtf did they go?

VC Stories had a feature that enabled you to see all your collected-so-far hidden packages (red balloons) and jumps completed, on the map. would be nice to see this again.

Road stingers should return, they were a barrel of laffs

Does anyone on ilx play Mult-Theft-Auto, the multiplayer modification for San Andreas? It's pretty awesome, and has undergone a lot of updates since it's initial construction many years ago. I mainly play the SKC races server, some of the car mods they have are pretty amazing.

kickstart missions definitely missed from iv.

races in IV pretty much sucked overall, you could lap all the computer cars even on your first attempt at a race. terrible.

there was multiplayer for that kinda thing i suppose. although npc drivers don't behave like arrogant entitled prepubescent homophobic little shits.

gutted that it's not GTA Yorkshire. Still hope for Red Riding Redemption though.

GTA Ambleside - wasn't that a Half Man Half Biscuit album?

races in IV pretty much sucked overall, you could lap all the computer cars even on your first attempt at a race. terrible.

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Friday, November 4, 2011 3:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL, I stopped playing GTAIV at that race mission (the first one if there are multiple missions) because I'm so shitty at them. I tried two or three times and just gave up.

yeah as usual i am rooting for the internet to declare it a failure so i can snap it up for no dollars

so yeah i hear that RAGE for the xbox 360 is the worst game ever kinect implementation terrible framerate sexist not sexist enough your friends will laugh at you stiff learning curve not for hardcore gamers uncanny valley RROD

― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:32 AM (3 months ago)

it worked! just bought it for $16 and its uh kind of awesome so far

stiff learning curve not for hardcore gamers

that was my favorite bit

This is....comprehensive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLsnbIaZ60

i wish i could do that with life

is this the right thread? http://www.gamesradar.com/grand-theft-auto-v-locales-posters-revealed/

yes. stoked.

Supposedly some more details coming on the 8th when the game informer issue comes out.

lawks GTAIV + liberty city stories 75% off on steam !

erm seriously, i have to be signed into Live to save my game. SERIOUSLY YOU'RE TELLING ME I CAN'T SAVE MY GAME IF I PLAY OFFLINE.

SERIOUSFUCKINGLY!!!??"

new trailer next week.

haha and now the CD key doesn't work. what a joke.

yup, GFWL has always been bullshit

i managed to get IV working, but not Liberty Stories.

looks pretty good on pc, except for the water reflections. I keep seeing reflections of trees and car doors that don't exist lol.

anyway, sorry back to gta 5...

is this game going to have play dates like the last one

Game Informer article

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDat0iNzF1s

so multi-character rumor was right. wonder just how much it's incorporated and how it will affect feel of the game. looks fantastic predictably, also some diversity in terrain thankfully - san andreas was my fave and that sprawling aspect was a big reason why.

Really hope hackers get around that saving-online thing. That sound horrible.

Oh, that was in GTA4 and was because of Games For Windows Live. Which is now dead, I think. Seriously doubt they'll let the same issue into GTA5.

Yes! Planes are back! Also, yoga! Golf! Jet-skiing! Tennis! Base-jumping! Scuba-diving!

GTA: SA was my favorite, perhaps my favorite game of all time, and the main thing i liked about it was the sheer number of different things you could do. Sounds like they are trying to bring that feeling back, and i can't wait.

rockstar's comments on the size of the game makes me wonder if the commutes will be realistic as well

Kind of a pisser that even with three man characters Rockstar couldn't make even one of them a woman :(

Er, that should read 'main' rather than 'man' obv...

Yeah, i was thinking about that too. Why not?

I'd be interested to hear from Rockstar on it. The argument we've heard a million times before is that female protagonists don't sell but if one of the biggest franchises in gaming can't make one of three player characters a woman then things are even more fucked than they appear.

Mind you, given their track record with female characters in GTA games maybe we're better off without a playable misogynist caricature....

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/arts/video-games/q-and-a-rockstars-dan-houser-on-grand-theft-auto-v.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Q. There are people who still aren’t delighted by the treatment of women in your games.

A. Of course. But is their argument that in a game about gangsters and thugs and street life, there are prostitutes and strippers — that that is inappropriate? I don’t think we revel in the mistreatment of women at all. I just think in the world we’re representing, in Grand Theft Auto, that it’s appropriate.

So Houser's explicitly saying here that, in the world they're presenting, they're willing to make a huge effort to create the unusual and nuanced (for videogames, anyway) lead character of Niko Bellic but utterly unwilling to do anything to present women as anything other than sex objects in supporting roles? What a shithead.

I hope this 'switching' between characters in missions isn't a crucial element to completing a mission, I really don't want to do that. I don't mind switching characters when I'm in free roam however.

Those ATV pics are sweet!

and a full playable golf course !! I was actually pleased to hear them state that it was better hire coders to write mini games that are fun, rather then ones that are 'half assed'. A nice confession there to some of the dreadful waste of time mini games some of their games feature.

is there a golfing minigame in Gay Tony? i am half-remembering one...

yeah, it was terrible

btw our article is actually available for single issue sale on ios, pc and android, so um...thanks for posting the scans

They're pretty good scans

Wait are you me?!?

game informer video podcast was v informative

dis thing

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/11/12/discussing-the-grand-theft-auto-v-demo-video.aspx

thx. no i meant it's kinda shitty for ppl to post scans esp when we tried to get the digital issue ready early so ppl could get it in advance of print.

changed my name to avoid confusion, didn't think abt that sorry

i dont see anything objectionable about that link m@tt

hahahaha lol

a+ mod edit

I also demand m@tt returns to being mh as well for maximum confusion

Totally on board, check my accurate dn change

Sorry mh! I did buy the digital version as well FWIW.

Hmm maybe I should try this digital magazine thing.

also this new trend of messing w/ usernames is hot as hell i read a trend piece

caltrops

IGN GTA pieces are poorly written -- Game Informer FTW

https://twitter.com/EpsilonismToday

Trailer 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzue74y7A84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzue74y7A84

yeah i'm way psyched for this

first appearance of dogs in gta, yes?

http://i.minus.com/iXLhyATHF8PRt.gif

http://i.imgur.com/0Spyil.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iXLhyATHF8PRt.gif

feel I've driven a car out of a cargo plane a few times in videogames recently...

The two dudes in the far right, love this kind of detail in gta games..

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vltuPG17huc/UKQaae87gtI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/ZDqJCvAKKPA/s1600/GTAVsnap1.png

What era is it set in?

NOW, baby. I think.

some new screenshots out. Interesting among them are the underwater and the mini submarine thing. mmm.

link
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/12/24/new-grand-theft-auto-v-screenshots-frickin-sharks?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Grove Street is back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=kfzrQGU6jhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzrQGU6jhM

And Rockstar identifying a key part of its target audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZXw5M6qQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOUlsrmzYM

juggalos!

is this game going to have play dates like the last one
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, November 8, 2012 1:16 PM

haha niko (me) can't bowl for shit.

I like the pained growth attempting to do better character work in 4, but I don't think they finally got it right until the expansions.

new vid up tomorrow, says gameplay video.

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire

Looks tasty. REAL fucking tasty.

boss

woa

Looking forward to buying and not really enjoying this except when i crash fighter jets into taxis

looks like a lot of max payne 3 in those guns, nice

I'm still apprehensive about that character switching, mostly just for the missions, but man look at that mountain bike haha

finally i can buy stocks and medicinal weed

It just looks overwhelming. It's as if they're trying to make games for people who only play one game every five years.

Hi dere :D

Haha!

can't wait to jump off that mountain

I wonder if any LA Noire tech is going to show up in this

finally i can buy stocks and medicinal weed

actual lol

maybe they've finally cracked the long standing "nothing to do with your money after the first third of the game" problem

This seems to be uncomfortably crossing over to close to the Sims/Second Life for me...

I hated going to the gym with CJ.

As long as I don't have my cousin larry or whoever calling me up and wanting to go bowling at 3 a.m., I'm good.

BAWSAQ

i was wondering how they were going to convince me to buy the new gta and now i know. marijuana dispensaries.

http://gtavtrailercomments.tumblr.com

A+ link

lol

"feels fun responsive"

wondering why they went with a female narrative voice?

soundtrack details have leaked

predictably sick

I have cleared the month of October for this. I hope for GTA:SA II!

soundtrack details have leaked

have you got a link? or a list?

http://www.gamefront.com/gta-5-radio-and-soundtrack-leaked-lazlow-is-back/

radio: http://hugefiles.net/hhhmxo3dhbzv

or spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/gentlecat/playlist/08f9XttfPYWmoW2HGXz8OF

my friend has been working on this for about a year, it's devoured his life, fuck this industry imo

Chief Keef – Love Sosa (Not 100% on this song.)

It just looks overwhelming. It's as if they're trying to make games for people who only play one game every five years.

yup this is me and I will probably be buying a new "gaming device" just to play this. I'll probably get Pro Evo too, but that's it.

my man

what device shld I get? I am total dilettante

Soulwax plugging themselves hard on their channel. I'm hoping that this works on old Xbox as I can justify time for game but not cost of a new console.

This is a current gen console game but I can see rockstar porting it to the next gen consoles with texture packs by this time next year

my friend has been working on this for about a year, it's devoured his life, fuck this industry imo

the soundtrack? or the game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3ZxOtTD5A

oooooonnnnneeee weeeeeeeek
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2_Haed1pP1k/T8AeR6eBYOI/AAAAAAAAALA/edXFAoQOugw/s320/1057988-two_weeks_image_super.jpg

HA. nice vid.

warning, big map:
http://i.imgur.com/MDRCIle.jpg

cool

see that main road that goes almost all the way around the map? Yeah, that's where I'll be spending the next 12 months driving around.

So this is all just Los Santos - no san francisco, no vegas.

yeah. idk, i'm cool w/ that i guess. vegas esp looked kind of half-hearted and rushed compared to LA.

Well, yeah. Me too.

I'm looking at that map, just thinking inside my head "Red Dead, GTA IV, San Andreas combined..."

So this is all just Los Santos - no san francisco, no vegas.

Yeah. Obviously it won't be at all, but from this map it feels smaller than GTA:SA. Only one large urban area.

It was always kind of weird that you could ride a bmx bike to San Fierro anyway.

That or the ocean front property in Las Venturas.

Still a great video game memory: riding down main road in San Fierro, bombing along to "Can you feel it?" Amazing game.

I'm alright with urban sprawl if it doesn't feel as boxed/hemmed in as GTA IV. There was a real sense of buildings as fences in that world.

That sad, unused little pocket in the top left corner of the GTA:SA world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWr4EAZ9taw

Shows the size comparison to gta IV and SA, wow

I hope they put some random stoners sitting in the woods in Topanga canyon

Or a Buddhist retreat

I expect the first "I SAW BIGFOOT!" rumours to start imminently.

really hope they put bigfoot in it this time. i wasted so many hours wandering around that shithole, sometimes you'd be waiting ages even to find a car to hijack. though when you did it would often have "i love a rainy night" or "playing with the queen of hearts" already on the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBf0Anqbd3w#t=14

i preordered this stupid game and it doesnt even have magic spells in it

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbl2tmnP4H1r9ee4eo1_500.png

i preordered

After GTA4 being sold out for a fortnight in London, I preordered



Shows the size comparison to gta IV and SA, wow

Bloody hell! It's what, 4 times full map of SA? City fits entire map basically.

I hope they put some random stoners sitting in the woods in Topanga canyon

Bodies being buried in desert was a nice touch.

Booked two days off next week for this, can't remember last time I did that for a game.

i preordered

― Mordy , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i also preordered http://www.ilxor.com/s.png

don't think i've ever done that before. i'm actually not sure i've ever bought a new game on or around its release date before.

I preordered a few months ago,for xbox
then cancelled the order earlier this week, and preordered for ps3

No days off but I work from home. It's going to be tough to resist

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/86816/grand-theft-auto-continues-to-treat-female-gamers-like-roadkill-with-latest-installment

other games about organized crime, like Saints Row, have managed to incorporate playable female characters without losing fans or castrating their male audience.

am kind of reluctant to praise Saints Row for its representation of women, tbh

leak for xbox has arrived. some people are going to have very good weekends.

Anyone want an ILG crew for the online stuff? I think crews carry over from Max Payne 3 actually, so maybe there's one already?

Actually - http://rsg.ms/16pCNei

I have now pre-ordered and I blame all of you.

no reviews out there at all yet? so naughty xbox360 owners are gona be the v first to judge this?

i preordered

― Mordyhttp://www.ilxor.com/s.pnghttp://www.ilxor.com/s.pnghttp://www.ilxor.com/s.pnghttp://www.ilxor.com/s.pnghttp://www.ilxor.com/s.pnghttp://www.ilxor.com/s.png, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

sooooooooo want to play this but soooooooo don't want to commit to the necessary time suckage.

I'd preorder her GTA V
http://i.imgur.com/TWH1jLc.jpg

the Latina(?) cop behind her

Is Trevor supposed to be modeled after Waingro?

Unable to decide whether foolish to pre-order. Can get it with Brady Ganes guide on Amazon but not with guarantee of delivery.

Genuinely at a loss about this, haven't bought a new new game in years...

i've never seen the point of those guides myself

Hangover from when I only had a desktop and console downstairs to save running up to check anything when at wits end finding items in GTA:SA.

Desktop was upstairs I mean.

IGN gives it a 10.
http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review

tom chick loves it too: http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review/

Haters-gonna-hate • 15 minutes ago −
I swear they paid this BIIIITCH to give it a 10. There's NO WAY this piece of junk is a 10/10. A whoooore with a stupid name (Keza? really?) doesn't know what a good game is. FUCKKK YOU KEZA YOU MONEY WHOOOORE! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SELL THEIR OWN PATHETIC PUSSIESSSS, YOU FUCKINNNNNG BIIIIITCH. YOU FUCKKKKING WESTERNS HAVE NO SELF RESPECT AND WOULD SELL YOUR OWN DIGNITY FOR MONEY. FUCKKKKK YOU KEZA, YOU'RE A TOTAL BIIIIIIIIITCH! SEE YOU IN A NIGHT CLUB, YOU PATHETIC WHOOOOOORE!!!

a huge gaming site gave it a 10?! it MUST be good!!!

Haters-gonna-hate • 15 minutes ago −
I swear they paid this BIIIITCH to give it a 10. There's NO WAY this piece of junk is a 10/10. A whoooore with a stupid name (Keza? really?) doesn't know what a good game is. FUCKKK YOU KEZA YOU MONEY WHOOOORE! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SELL THEIR OWN PATHETIC PUSSIESSSS, YOU FUCKINNNNNG BIIIIITCH. YOU FUCKKKKING WESTERNS HAVE NO SELF RESPECT AND WOULD SELL YOUR OWN DIGNITY FOR MONEY. FUCKKKKK YOU KEZA, YOU'RE A TOTAL BIIIIIIIIITCH! SEE YOU IN A NIGHT CLUB, YOU PATHETIC WHOOOOOORE!!!

^ phil fish

Yah, universal acclaim so far but as if it was ever gonna be any different. Finally cracked and pre-ordered today, late nights this month

can't wait. i'm buying all hype right now.

early word that RS has really upped the quality of mission design has me thinking wistfully at my mailbox already

watched the torture video on eurogamer earlier, gotta say that kinda grit doesn't get me excited.

yyyyyeah, having watched that video, i'll pass

already composing excuses why i'm ok with this in my head

refusing to watch the vid so I'm talking out my ass a little bit wrt the realism or otherwise of this torture, but I've seen it likened in places to the 'No Russian' mission from whichever COD that was, and I was always kinda ok about just playing through that level and not thinking about it. Not sure if this makes me a moral derelict or just reflects how little basis I feel these games actually have in real life, even now

they make a minigame of h jon benjamin pulling out a bound man's tooth with a pair of pliers and it appears to take quite some time and is followed up with a fratboy "torture doesn't really work" bullshit cop-out so I don't think Rockstar are trying to have you pretend you're not doing what you're doing. based on my understanding of the franchise and of the surrounding material this isn't some specops the line "are you not entertained" ish either. i think it is what it is and what it is is a realistic minigame where you pull out a bound man's tooth with a pair of pliers which leads to another guy making an azerbaijani/azervagina joke so everyone who's buying this should probably know that up front.

the majority of the commenters on that eurogamer article are primarily complaining about spoilers so i can't imagine it'll matter one way or another

Can't believe they added torture to this murder sim

yeah and why should i care about animal welfare if i eat meat
everybody's got their lines

i have done + witnessed some horrific stuff in the video game medium and i'll be damned if that stops now

I'm not sure anything you can do in this or any other GTA game will ever come close to touching the evil that was in my soul the day I plugged Mordin in the back during Mass Effect 3. Now that shit was harrowing

TOMORROw

Today here :)

IN fact my housemate is prob playing it RN

Livestream or it didn't happen?

He just said somethign about a blimp. Already confused.

seems fun as hell so far, few niggly crap bits like the dog-training and the tow-truck missions and the shooting range stuff that get in the way of actual gameplay (& fun). can't imagine the stock market stuff is much better. minor moans though, so far seems a ton more enjoyable than the relentless misery of gta4 (not incl the 2 great dlc games).

I liked the look of the stock market stuff! But then again I play games like SimCity.

For the first time ever I went to get it at midnight, stood in line for 30 minutes, etc.; arrived home to find out that my PS3 controller is fucked.

http://www.twitch.tv/GameSpot

12-hr livestream by a smart-ass Irish Gamespot dude playing it

The phrase "dog training game" just made me decide not to go buy this tomorrow

pls tell me that wasnt meant as in dog=woman

(who am I kidding, it's Rockstar)

Just collected my copy, now gotta trawl through 9 hours of relentless office grind before I can go home and get shootin. Eruugh. All the old office ladies yelling at me atm telling me that I'm part of the problem, civilisation in melting pot etc. gonna be a long day

Installing now...

wow playstation. you really chose a great time to break.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK!!!

Mine didn't arrive in today's post. Why did I order it online like a mug when I can just go out right now and buy it in a shop?

bring it round ste i have a working ps3 but wasn't allowed to go to tesco at midnight to get it

Managed to get to the first save point without crashing (I have done that intro part about 7 times now).

Had a pretty fun time driving around, swimming in the waves (quite gorgeous actually). Just crashed again. Will have to get the 360 version now.

The thing I notice right away is how very like San Andreas original it seems, compared to how different GTAIV was to the Liberty City of old.

Night time is beautiful looking.

Just over an hour away from finishing at work and I'm now getting badgered by a mate I've not seen for over a month to go to the pub and watch the football with him. Anyone got any ideas for polite ways to say "Fuck off, I value this game more than I value our friendship right now"?

i think i might be one of the few that find rockstar games boring as hell. i was playing red dead last night and as beautiful as it looks i just end up shooting everyone because its so boring (possible cross-ref w/ disgruntled shootings thread ;)

I'd agree with some of the other games they've produced. GTA stands slightly apart from the other Rockstar games imo. I played both RDR and L.A. Noire and really enjoyed them both so long as the main narrative lasted but found myself at a total loose end once that was finished.

Conversely I've always found that the greatest joy in GTA, no matter how good the story, is to rampage about just doing your thing - not necessarily going on ludicrous killing sprees every time, but in those little found moments where it all aligns perfectly - the right song coming on as you hit the freeway in your supercar, cops approaching from all sides and a thunderstorm raging, or helicopter dogfights round the Statue of Liberty or w/e.

The reason I'm jonesing for this game so bad is that by all accounts this kind of set-piece is facilitated more than ever

I think I'm beginning to realise that I need to make time in my life for this game.

bah crashed again, lol. Right in the middle of driving my articulated lorry through the hills to the Convoy tune.

Should get some work done I guess

i can def see getting into the sandbox aspect of their games but in all the ones i have, gtaiv, rdr and la noire the missions in general aren't that fun. i guess some of the minigames are lol, the rdr bird shooting challenge was like duck hunt without the laughing dog. supposedly they've revamped missions in gtav tho right? im sure i'll end up caving in and getting it at some point.

p.s. the torture scene is pretty offensive in that its a long cutscene with qtes thrown in

Apparently the new triple-protagonist setup really ramps up the pace of the missions, theoretically you ought to be able to skip between the different characters depending on which one is doing the most interesting / enjoyable thing. Also revamped shooting / driving mechanics, which should help things along on the big gunfights, which were admittedly pretty tedious on GTAIV

that all sounds good if true, esp the shooting / driving stuff. curious to see how good the online multiplayer is

in gta3, vice city and san andreas i would put in the 100% health cheat over and over again because so many of the missions were shitty and i hate being frustrated and just wanted to see what else would happen. true gamer confessions.

Addition of checkpoints in missions has been a long time coming, planning to try and do my first playthrough cheat-free if poss

in san andreas i would just play the pool mini game over and over. true gamer confessions.

red dead texas hold'em

Yeah once I got that suit which let you skim cards off the deck there was no stopping me. First time I'd ever learned to play poker

the tennnis mini-game in this is great, but real easy once you suss it out. will be great playing that online with a mate

been playing for ages and still no sign of trevor. initially thought i'd got some weird broken copy but turns out trevor only turns up after 4 hours of mission gameplay or something. kindof excited as all the reviews rave about playing as his character

hope i can ditch all the shooting range, dog training crap without it affecting my stats so much. one minor gripe is that there's a *lot* to keep tabs on, almost gets confusing with the multiple characters rpg stats stuff

We've started preparing your shipment for delivery and it should leave our facility in the next few hours to a few days.

lol no regrets about this, at all

is there any sign of having to "maintain relationships" like in gta4? hated that so much, that and all the driving to get to missions. I love the mechanic in jc2 of being able to parachute to locations you've already visited

oof, just remembered another IV annoyance: taking cabs everywhere after a while b/c it was quicker than driving

i think there's a bit of that relationships stuff yeah, ive had texts from people saying lets hang out, etc. just ignoring that crap. rockstar lot really need an editor with some of this stuff - going sitting in a restaurant with someone IN A GAME is really not much fun at all. been on the fairground rides, pretty zzz and im expecting the same from the movie theatre stuff (though i'll be surprised if they top the sheer awfulness of the gta4 comedy club bits). i'm just highlighting the bad shit here btw, there's so much AWESOME don't let it put you off

getting a string of texts from Elliot taunting me about how great this is

now i'm getting it off Joel

i'm disowning my children

don't disown them, they might not let you play their gta5

play the long game

I'd be confiscating it to protect their young minds.

tbf Elz is 21

might work with Joel tho

We've started preparing your shipment for delivery and it should leave our facility in the next few hours to a few days.

lol no regrets about this, at all

― goole

Go buy a copy of the game, keep the receipt, and return the copy that gets shipped to you to the store. No biggie.

Been reading about all the wildlife in this. People are getting eaten by mountain lions! Has anyone scuba dived yet? Are there sharks/rays/tropical fish?

I just have a PC so my enjoyment of this game will be vicarious for a while...

eh, it's only a couple days. and i want whatever pre-order content i'm getting now.

the missions are exhilarating - same standard 'go here, shoot these guys, escape' type thing but honed so it's pure fun. the cover system is great and the movement of your character isn't as lumpen and sluggish as in gta4. lot of cutscenes and exposition though which i never like, though again it's better (more believable, better-written, not as miserable/pompous) than gta4. in actual 'game' terms it's nowhere near as good and gripping as splinter cell blacklist for me, but as a phenomenon/cultural artefact etc it's pretty great.

Couple of days? PC is coming out soon?

in actual 'game' terms it's nowhere near as good and gripping as splinter cell blacklist for me

So Blacklist is that good?

yeah, i properly loved it. took all the best bits from conviction (and ditched the worst) and from the older games and made the most gripping game ive ever played. without sounding wank, a game for people who appreciate games, whereas gta5 is this sprawling multi-media epic for the everyman with a little bit of game sprinkled on top

really enjoying this so far

feels a lot like GTAIV but w/much more likeable lead in the form of franklin

shooting & driving just feels like GTAIV to me. driving is noticeably twitchier tho, & not for the better

movement & shooting still feels like GTAIV. did they gimp the shooting from the car? feel like that was better in GTAIV but may be misremembering

lots of pop-up

thought the tennis was awful. imagine the golf & cycling are equally terrible

I already faked illness at work about 5 months ago, or I'd do it again tomorrow just to play this.

the dialogue is so good. lamar & franklin's back and forth esp

Is Trevor supposed to be modeled after Waingro?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, September 13, 2013 7:11 PM (4 days ago)

yeah the shooting from car thing has changed for the worse, weirdly. might improve - ie. lock-on quicker - once shooting stats are up. i really liked the tennis game, mega simple, almost pong-like but weirdly playable until it got super easy once you suss out the winning moves

If anyone finds any awesome gameplay videos please post them!

http://i.imgur.com/5SEDHeN.gif

My initial impressions are that it's insanely pretty and the early missions are much more enjoyable than in GTA IV. I've barely scratched the surface though.

This is great. I killed a mountain lion! Red Dead Redemption is just about my favourite game, but this might topple it - especially if there's mountain lions to be killed. And the sounds you hear being out in the countryside at night - superbly atmospheric. I haven't done many missions yet because eh. I like all the "boring" stuff that people with no patience hate: exploring the world; driving, riding around and stuff.

I would like driving in these games more if you could turn traffic off (could do that in Saints Row 2 I think? it ruled)

I may just have to buy this tonight. Was hoping to hold off until the weekend, but I'm weak.

Very much like IV but a lot nicer looking so far, and the characters all seem wicked cool this time out. Only been playing for about 2 and a half / 3 hours so I really haven't even started to get to grips with it. But holy shit is this map huge. Had one huge car chase along a freeway that went on for about 10 minutes, checked it on the map and it turned out I hadn't even changed direction at any point, just a straight line run

Also the ability to take selfies is such a fucking great idea

Sounds brilliant!

Bar the torture...

jet skiing at night was awesome. apart from the shark

http://i.imgur.com/ctptKlp.jpg

Swimming in the ocean looks *amazing*, the water and waves are incredibly real

And omg @ being able to go and ride the fucking rollercoaster and ferris wheel on the shore.

The atmospheric sound in this game is amazing!

The driving is the same for the most part but the HUD is much better.

Listening to 'Big Log' and watching the sun set

anyone get carjacked yet? i lol'd.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/gta-v-a-sophisticated-gaming-experience-says-man-w,33893/

My housemate busjacked a bus, drove it up a very very steep hill, then steered it off a cliff and bailed at the last moment. The sight of this bus careening endlessly down ravines, a la the Lisa Log from the Simpsons, had me in tears of laughter.

LOL I wrote that before even reading that Onion link too, hahahaha.

I'm hardly getting anywhere with this because I keep sitting gazing at the map screen so I can listen to that Tangerine Dream track.

reminds me a lot of the incidental music in HEAT which is obv a massive influence on this GTA

lester is kelso (tom noonan) with clint howard's face

trevor is obv a waingro rip

getting michael decked out in de niro's goatee asap

Are there any hidden items in this one, I've not come across anything yet.

And does the weather change? Not seen any rain yet.

These things are important to me. If there's no dynamic weather nor hidden items I'm going to be pretty cross.

yes to both

i think i love you

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/51371/the-free-gtav-ifruit-and-game-manual-companion-apps.html

In support of this week’s worldwide release of Grand Theft Auto V, we’ve got a special pair of totally free companion apps that will be available for download starting today to enhance and aid your game experience.

Customise your car & train your dog - app integrated with your game.

iFruit is currently iOS only so all the best personalised plate numbers will be gone by the time it hits Android.

on a down point, frame rate is pretty turd. Looking forward to pc release.

Came across an old antique tractor, couldn't believe it but it was drivable!

(to be fair I have been playing Just Cause 2 a great deal on pc, and it has a silky smooth frame rate so I could just be used to that)

and also I keep trying to grapple hook everywhere.

JC2 grapple hook & parachute should be incorporated in every game

There's an OG Loc album on Franklyn's bedroom floor.

http://i.imgur.com/D6ebGbT.gif

Yes I've noticed some odd rag doll stuff in my game. Like falling flat on my face when climbing rocks.

but the diving action when you jump into water is fantastic

needs to be pantless w/hat
http://25.media.tumblr.com/22952d2c52e150663803979eafb9c041/tumblr_mtb3ek0rEa1qmwe65o1_500.jpg

shooting & driving just feels like GTAIV to me.

Noooooo. This has actually cast doubt on whether I try to pick this up any time soon... I found GTA IV damn near unplayable due to the way the cars drove. Like this syrupy no-man's-land between arcade driving games and simulations, but keeping all the bits that don't feel like real driving and all the bits that aren't fun.

I don't think its as 'syrupy' as gtaiv

jonah hill huh

I think the driving has slightly improved since IV, but the braking on motorbikes is too artificial. You can be going at full speed and come to an almost immediate stop, and turning is almost Tron lightcycle-like. Also I've dropped down mountains on a bike and it remains upright, just bouncing off the rocks and very easily controllable.

What about the radio? It seems sometimes that when I 'tune in' to a station the same track will be playing. Could be just coincidence as I haven't been playing that long, but I've heard "Still DRE" and Wham's "Everything She Wants" a hell of a lot. But it's still great to just race along the ocean highway at dusk with "Music Sounds Better With You" followed by "1 Thing" and "With Every Heartbeat" blaring from the car's radio.

1. knock out civilian
2. pour petrol over him
3. set him on fire
4. ????
5. selfie

Oh yeah, what is wrong with the characters in Blaine County? I stopped off at some small road side place and walked past this woman character who then said "I'm calling the police". I thought it was just some random dialogue, but next thing I know I'm on a one-star wanted level and I have to evade the fucking cops. Is it because I is Franklin? I didn't even hold up and rob the store (which is quite fun for a couple of times).

I couldn't stand bikes in GTAIV, awful control. They're improved for me in this one.

I found the muvva of all dump trucks too.

i don't think i have time to play a game like this (been working through the last Dishonored DLC for weeks now, 1/2 an hour at a time), but how's the Flying Lotus station?

I have the day off on Friday so I think I'll pick this up tomorrow after work!

ste did you play the gta4 dlc? they improved the bikes on that.

cara delevingne hosts the pop station and her dialogue is seriously awful, such a weird choice of dj (she's never done anything like this before has she?). was gona post about it on that crepey ile thread dedicated to posting unflattering photos of her but nah

I forgot to eat dinner irl yesterday. :[

Franklin's time slowdown ability allowed me to pull off a very fun last minute win in my first race.

Also I completed a round of golf. 11 over par wooooop woooooooooop

I forgot to eat dinner irl yesterday. :[
― polyphonic, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:19 PM

#truegamerconfessions

the golf is actually alright, I thought

Yeah I started to get the hang of it in the last few holes. It's more nuanced than the golf in IV. I *love* that you can either walk to the ball, use the golf cart, or skip ahead. Cool idea.

anyone get carjacked yet? i lol'd.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:00 PM (Yesterday)

YES!!! I was in the process of carjacking someone else when dude comes up and tries to steal the car I got out of. I of course shotgunned him to bits until the car blew up. Hope that will teach him a lesson.

Yeah he won't do that again.

JimD: we both chose the same Rockstar Social Club avatar! Haha.

Don't forget to join the ILX crue, dudez.

what is it? what do i have to do? the word 'social' implies other people are involved. that makes me nervous.

Go here and create a profile, and link it to your console. Then search for ilx in the crews page.

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/

ok

i joined the gang

i'm in

lol max payne 3, forgot about that shit

I joined too.

JOINED

lol it bleeps your posts

there's certainly no bleeping in the game. most profane script for a video game ever?

this game

you can reply to texts?

yeah but i can't figure out if you can switch what you wrote - it asks you to confirm which message you want to send but so far i've only seen one choice

You can't switch it out. It's just like the email in the last game.

Things I've liked on observing this so far:

- go for a swim in your clothes, theyre slick wet and dripping when you get out
- the skytram car thing up in the mountain
- it rains (and that affects your grip on the road driving)
- the plane graveyard out in the desert

That plane graveyard has some insane level of detail going on

re that wet clothes thing, have you noticed if you only go into the water halfway it will actually only wet you halfway

bah cant do the social thing coz my live account dont work no more

Played a lot tonight, can honestly say the driving is heaps better than IV.

Found my first hidden 'package', won't spoil anything for anyone else.

Just lots of fun, even doing the missions now. Lots of random mission (and they're interesting too). It's pretty hectic what with the extra character and people on the map and contacts to ring.

I played tennis, it was okay. It wasn't the travesty side game that a lot of rockstar stuff is. I don't like tennis though. I'll try the golf tomorrow.

Have died lots. You really can't do much illegal stuff without people getting upset.

strippers. nipples.

yeah i saw a rat scuttle across the ground at that graveyard

oh and gun upgrades!

i've played some missions but honestly i feel overwhelmed, what am i supposed to do in this game

ha i feel kinda sickened by the vast sweep of this, played for like 5 hours tonight, i am wasting my non-virtual life &c

i spent 5 hours posting to ilx from inside gta v

i can believe that, sure

what's the gta parody of ilx called

ilxxx

haha

Tried bmxing up the mountain, got almost to the top and bike gave up. Tried walking, and tumbled pathetically almost all the way down to near death.

That's life, innit.

Taken me all of four hours of gameplay to get bogged down in stat-building mini-games, I spent hours last night doing the the shooting range challenges out the back of Ammu-Nation, trying to get good shooting skill and cheap guns. Unapologetic, thoroughly enjoying myself.

I'm also coming round to the idea that the driving in this is better than in IV, have been continually surprised by how controllable the vehicles are when hitting corners at high speeds

driving gets noticeably better when you level up and trick out your car with street/race brakes & turbo

quit my job this morning and thought i'd get gta to distract. then thought shit, i quit my job this morning and just downloaded san andreas cos its £40 cheaper.

the yoga mission

the main thing I dislike so far is that there doesn't seem to be that much reason to explore the world on foot

I frequently see interesting buildings with open doors, ladders up the side etc but whenever I get off to have a look there's nothing there

I know there are 'emergent' non-scripted activities dotted around the world but would have it killed rockstar to make on-foot exploration a bit more interesting?

Have just discovered that if you stop at the traffic lights and rev your engine then occasionally the guy in the lane next to you will try and race you as you pull away. Great feature

Coming down from the tram car summit, there is both a new, gravelled trail cut into the mountainside, and also an "old trail", like, a washed out no-longer-used trail that dovetails in and around the new trail. Has jumps and things. It was such a neat detail I was left gobsmacked. If you haven't ridden the tram up and dirtbiked down I would recommend it.

- ? missions, I took a tow-truck one (boring) and another where Michael smokes weed and then [spoilers] (just across from Simeon's showroom).

- I went "smart" instead of "loud" for the first heist and I'm glad I did, Trevor's missions are giving me enough "loud"

- The plane flies great and this island is beautiful.

i played for three hours and i feel like all i've done is drive around some strip malls

went to the strip club last night

Me too. Buying GTA V tomorrow.

ayo

is it a function of (my) age and attention that makes the gta3 liberty city still feel so real and vibrant (in my memory at least) or is it some sort of uncanny valley thing wrt gta5 los santos feeling a little sterile?

that said, i jumped a fence by the roller coaster and hid behind some machinery as two cops were searching for me, their vision cones sweeping back and forth past my hiding spot, some tense shit until they gave up. pretty fantastic.

I think there's something eerily quiet and still about GTA3 when you go back to it after playing anything from San Andreas onwards.

the aliens & clowns & yoga missions

o_O

strippers. nipples.

― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 23:54

polygons. pixels.

I'd peep her pixels

I'm also coming round to the idea that the driving in this is better than in IV, have been continually surprised by how controllable the vehicles are when hitting corners at high speeds

I went "smart" instead of "loud" for the first heist and I'm glad I did, Trevor's missions are giving me enough "loud"

you got access to trevor before the first heist? i've just completed it and no sign of the guy

im starting to wonder if i can fully enjoy this game as a non-stoner

I'm also coming round to the idea that the driving in this is better than in IV, have been continually surprised by how controllable the vehicles are when hitting corners at high speeds

This is kind of disappointing to me - all the cars seem perfectly usable, part of the fun in IV was getting stuck with a land barge that couldn't corner to save its life at crucial moments.

Well I was talking more specifically about your high-speed supercars that could be a right pain on IV if you couldn't corner for shit. Still finding plenty of the bigger vehicles are steering like cows on this tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT-ZCS-B740

really dig a lot of the animations and the ragdoll stuff. the abrupt transition from like, purposeful jumping animation to limp spiraling ragdoll is hilarious.

that video is cracking me up - the punch animation and the hats flying off are both perfect

domestic abuse simulator

never understood why the AI doesn't respond to "oh you punched the guy next to me unconscious"

cool how you can sometimes strike up rudimentary two-way conversations with strangers with the d-pad like in San Andreas - accidentally smart mouthed someone into shoooting at me then got ran over at v high speed while running away

DJ Mehdi came on the radio as the sun was setting and I got kinda bummed out about him

Spent $500 getting Franklin's car repaired after it got smashed up during one of the spontaneous event missions, smashed it up again on the way home when another one came up, then got it in the garage and a brand new version of his car had spawned next to it when I woke up - do not repair your car, kids

the AI in this responds forks & will pick a fight with you / call the police / run off screaming

im starting to wonder if i can fully enjoy this game as a non-stoner

Pretty fun if you're drunk too